posted Tuesday, November 12, 2019
From a distance, The 519 community centre here in Toronto looks like a little square box with newly-built condos rising to fill the sky around it. This would be a misconception. The 519 is actually huge, offering over 130 programs within the building, and an extra 25 or so led separately by staff. The 519 is distinguished […]
posted Monday, February 11, 2019
With few enticing options at the cinema and some frightful weather outside, many moviegoers are opting to stay home and stream their winter blues away, instead. And at the stroke of February, the Netflix original movie Velvet Buzzsaw was released to some hungry binge watchers! Shortly thereafter, a general online consensus points to the film’s despondent […]
posted Monday, October 15, 2018
This Toronto art exhibition snuck up on me, yet it’s one of the best pairing of individuals I could ever imagine. The wonder-mind works of Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE are displayed alongside Toronto’s own original riot-gal, G.B. Jones. Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE exemplifies what an artist could become when raised before the cynical machinations of late capitalism distorted […]
posted Monday, October 15, 2018
Is art something you frame on the wall, or an experience to remember? In Holding Patterns (1655 Dupont St., various hours, until Oct. 21), art appreciation is found in the unlikeliest of places – a storage facility. Note I said art appreciation, not art storage – who knows how many masterpieces collect dust in those […]
posted Wednesday, June 20, 2018
This LGBT-friendly boutique hotel in the heart of West Queen West is part of the expanding Drake experience, which includes other properties committed to the same arts-focused mission. The Drake is very invested in the community in which it is situated, and is actively involved in supporting Second Harvest and The Parkdale Food Bank to name […]
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2018
NUIT ROSE is back for its fifth annual festival of queer art and performance. Taking the theme of Unbound, the festival features art that crosses borders, both real and imagined. Join us on June 16th from 7PM till late for our annual ART CRAWL with programming across Toronto neighbourhoods West Queen West and the Church-Wellesley […]
posted Monday, May 7, 2018
The Art of Banksky exhibition will be coming to Toronto for a limited four-week run, June 13 to July 11, 2018. Corey Ross, President, Starvox Entertainment, Michel Boersma, Senior Vice President Family Entertainment & Theatre, Live Nation, and Steve Lazarides, Exhibition Curator made this massive announcement at a press conference held in Toronto on May 7, […]
posted Thursday, April 26, 2018
The Gladstone Hotel is an historic hotel with beautiful artist-designed guest rooms, that allow you to sleep-in-a-work-of-art. The entire venue is focused around their relationship to the arts community, with plenty of queer programming, such as Same-Sex Weddings and Pride at the Gaystone, a Gay Country party. There’s also the annual That’s So Gay Exhibition, and […]
posted Sunday, April 22, 2018
The Family Camera Network (FamCam) and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) present, Queering Family Photography, an original exhibition that explores how family photographs reflect, shape, and expand queer forms of affective connection and kinship. On display until Saturday, May 26, 2018 at the Stephen Bulger Gallery 1356 Dundas St W, Toronto, the exhibition is a featured exhibition […]
posted Friday, March 23, 2018
I remember several years back, going to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre when it was at the first location, in a converted auto detailer with a pink leopard spots paint job, and you walked south from Queen St. past Britain and Bootlegger Lane. The original Buddies is an auto detailer again, which goes to show, […]
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